Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hanover, N. H. October 21, 1924. In the first strenuous practice since the Yale game the Varsity went through a hard signal drill and a long dummy scrimmage against the scrubs who used Harvard plays. There were two important shifts in the line-up of team A, Fallon replacing Dooley at quarterback and Holleran taking Goldstein's place at left tackle...
Hanover, N. H., October 20.--Dartmouth began a strenuous four-day drive for the Harvard game today when Coach Hawley put the first team through the longest practice of the season. When dusk set in, a ghost ball was employed in order that the practice might be continued longer...
...athletic clubs and Y. M. C. A.'s all over the country. It is said that physical fatigue prevents mental exertion, but that mental fatigue is relieved by physical exertion. If this is true, no more pleasant recreation could be found after a day's study, than a strenuous game of squash topped off by a cold plunge...
...cheer your team to victory' is another mistake. How about making these onlookers practice and practice until they are good enough to make the team. Athletics is the only substitute for this continual dissipation. Everybody in college from Freshmen to Seniors should be compelled to play some strenuous muscle-building game. Then we'd begin see some improvement in this jazzworn generation...
Some of the group of players who stood on the sidelines yesterday were being given a day of rest after Monday's strenuous scrimmage. Among these were Captain Greenough, Daley, and E. H. Bradford. On the other hand the absence of Rogers, Gehrke, Samborski, Spalding and Cheek was not from the will of the coaches, but because of injuries. According to Trainer Donovan these men should all be in uniform by Saturday...